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MOSCOW'S NEW PURGE

Among the defendants in Moscow's latest treason trial is a group of Kremlin doctors who stand charged with murder. Two of their alleged victims are Menzhinsky, chief of the G. P. U., and the eminent writer, Maxim Gorky. One can understand a band of antiStalin conspirators turning their weapons against the head of Stalin's secret police. But as for Maxim Gorky,